Selling Sunset newcomer Vanessa Villela has revealed that she’s been diagnosed with long covid after contracting the virus over the summer.
Vanessa received the news of her positive test after returning home from holidaying in Mexico just before season five of the hit Netflix show began filming.
As a result of her illness, the 43 year old missed out on five weeks of filming as production had to continue without her. Discussing her illness and how “challenging” it was, Vanessa told OK!: “It was very unfortunate because I lost five weeks of filming.” “I’m much better now; thank God I have a very amazing doctor,” she added. “I have something called long covid.